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Best Of The Rest: Japan's Robot Cafe, Eyelid Art, And Monster Michael Jackson

The week in creativity.

This week…

*This piece from the XYZ Collective stole our hearts/won Art Basel. [Bullett]

*Tumblr announced their favorite Tumblrs of 2013 (meta). [Tumblr]

*Japan's best light displays dazzled us. [Spoon-Tamago]

*AnOther Magazine pondered the future of wearables. [AnOtherMagazine]

*23 creatives and "weirdos" choose their favorite music of 2013. [Fader]

*Refinery29 launched a tech gift guide. [Refinery29]

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*Google opened up its online exhibition interface to the masses. [Hyperallergic]

*Yahoo News posted this as one of their photos of the year. Not. Photoshopped. Ya'll. [Booooooom]

*NY Mag wondered "Is eyelid art the new nail art?"[TheCut]

*Pasta architecture happened. [AnOther]

*Delightfully bonkers blog Brown Cardigan released a series of amazing holiday cards. [CoolHunting]

*We stared in awe at this list of "environment art" pieces. [MyModernMet]

*We discovered monster fan-art. [Flavorpill]

*This wind-up box added music to comic books. [PSFK]

*This "smart sleep mask" wanted you to get better quality shut-eye. [Fast Co]

*The Daily Mail wondered if life is but a hologram? [DailyMail]

*Barack Obama took a selfie at Nelson Mandela's funeral and Michelle was like "I AM NOT EVEN…" [Twitter]

*Artist Rollin Leonard created your new favorite gift--DIY face boxes. [RollinLeonard]

*The Lumen Festival in Derry looked pretty awesome. [WeMakeMoneyNotArt]

*Grid, which we previously covered, finally launched. Look at provincial France sparkle! [Vimeo]

*People went insane for snowflake photography. [Gothamist]

*12 International art neighborhoods inspired us. Especially Montreal (above)--nothing like some poutine and a little spray paint! [Buzzfeed]

*And last but not least…Gothamist went inside Tokyo's robot cafe. [Gothamist]

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